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It was split in two volumes. The first volume has Gospels on 199 leaves with size . The second volume containing Acts and Epistles on 189 leaves with size 21.2 by 15.2 cm. The codex contains entire of the New Testament, except last its book - Apocalypse. It has also some lacunae. It contains the Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian Canon tables, prolegomena, tables of the (tables of contents) before every Gospel, (lectionary markings and were added by a later hand), subscriptions at the end of each book, numbers of (in James and Pauline epistles). == Text ==

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type with some alien readings. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family Kx. Aland did not place it in any of his Categories. According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx. In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος (through water and spirit) together with the manuscripts 241, 463, 945, 1241, 1831, 1877*, 1891. == History ==

The manuscript was dated by Gregory to the 12th century (with some hesitation). Currently it has been assigned by the INTF to the 11th century. Possibly it was written in Ephesus. It was given by P. de Berzi in 1661 to the Oratory of San Maglorian. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1884. It is currently housed in at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (8409. 8410), one of the branches of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, at Paris. == See also ==